Bimaaji’idiwin Sustainable Community Project – Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) USDA Grant

Programming is centered around the concept of harvest, incorporating cultural values and traditions, food sovereignty, and seasonal activities. With an emphasis on empowering youth resiliency and teen leadership through three themes:

• Food Sovereignty
• Passing of Knowledge
• Leadership through connection with culture

USDA APHIS: Agricultural and Natural Resources Knowledge Emersion Camp

The APHIS summer camp program builds career pathways in agriculture and natural resources for our youth. The series of two camps focuses on how these subjects connect to Ojibwe culture and heritage.
The fundamentals of the camp incorporate scientific training in understanding the relationship of plants to the soil, air, water, and other organisms, with immersion in the fields of biology and environmental science.

Climate Strong! – Building Tribal Youth Leadership for Climate Resiliency

Climate Strong! is an immersion camp for grades 5-12 to gain awareness of how climate change impacts cultural and community systems. The youth will gain leadership skills by engaging with climate change models and gain experience contributing to community resiliency strategies.
Our outcomes are focused on:

• Providing outreach to community members; highlighting community resiliency issues facing our region
• Sharing project results with partners
• Increasing community resiliency through adaptation of culturally relevant stewardship strategies that reduce climate change impacts on natural resources that support cultural practices
• Expanding the number of community-based climate resiliency projects that reduce extreme weather impacts